Bataille de dames

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Bataille de dames

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[Footnote 44: #crieurs des rues#, newsmongers, men corresponding

somewhat to our newsboys.]

[Footnote 45: #soeur#. Cp. p.11, line 21.]

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[Footnote 46: #A la bonne heure!# Well done, here, but with very

varied shades of meaning, that must be caught always from the context.]

[Footnote 47: The campaign of 1812-1813 is meant. Its chief events were

the burning of Moscow (October, 1812), Napoleon's very disastrous

retreat thence, and the defeat of the French at Leipzig in October,

1813.]

[Footnote 48: See p. 2, note 1.]

[Footnote 49: #voiture de place#, public cab.]

[Footnote 50: #Lambert#. Curiously enough, the three Lamberts known

to the history of this time were all émigrés, and one of them a

Russian general during the invasion of France. The name is therefore

somewhat unfortunately chosen.]